Dose response of weed seeds, plant-parasitic nematodes, and pathogens to twelve rates of metam sodium in a California soil

Plant Disease

Volumn 92, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1537-1546

  Klose, Susanne ^a   Ajwa, Husein A ^a   Browne, Greg T ^a   Subbarao, Krishna V ^a   Martin, Frank N ^b   Fennimore, Steve A ^a   Westerdahl, Becky B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Soil disinfestation

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS; CARBON INORGANIC COMPOUNDS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DISEASE CONTROL; FUMIGATION; GEOLOGIC MODELS; PATHOGENS; PEST CONTROL; PESTICIDES; PLANTS (BOTANY); SEED; SODIUM; SOIL CONDITIONERS; WEED CONTROL;

CALIFORNIA; CONTROLLED CONDITIONS; CYPERUS ESCULENTUS; DITHIOCARBAMATE; DOSE RESPONSES; EFFECTIVE CONCENTRATIONS; HIGHLY SENSITIVES; INCUBATION PERIODS; LOW TEMPERATURES; METAM SODIUMS; METHYL ISOTHIOCYANATE; MOIST SOILS; PHYTOPHTHORA CACTORUM; PLANT PATHOGENS; PORTULACA OLERACEA; PYTHIUM ULTIMUM; RAPID DECOMPOSITIONS; RESPONSE MODELS; SANDY LOAM SOILS; SOIL FUMIGATIONS; SOIL MICROCOSMS; SOIL TEMPERATURES; SOILBORNE PATHOGENS; VERTICILLIUM DAHLIAE; WEED SEEDS; WEED SPECIES;

SOILS;

CYPERUS; CYPERUS ESCULENTUS; MALVA; MALVA PARVIFLORA; NEMATODA; PHYTOPHTHORA CACTORUM; POLYGONUM; POLYGONUM ARENASTRUM; PORTULACA OLERACEA; PORTULACACEAE; PYTHIUM; PYTHIUM ULTIMUM; STELLARIA; STELLARIA MEDIA; TYLENCHULUS SEMIPENETRANS; VERTICILLIUM DAHLIAE;

EID: 55849111567     PISSN: 01912917     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/PDIS-92-11-1537     Document Type: Article

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